LabradorDeceiver

*sigh* I have no idea how often this ground has been trod on this subreddit, but I need to reiterate it for my own peace of mind: Passengers, please be at the spot you say you're going to be at. If you tell us to pick you up at 15 Main Street, please be at 15 Main Street.

You'd think this would be intuitive, but the other day I had yet another passenger who got bored and wandered off. This one actually caught up to me while I was headed in the other direction and waved at me, and got mad at me when I cruised right past him.

Passengers, I don't know who you are or what you look like; I see a green pin on a screen, not a picture, and he'd need to be wearing a name tag the size of a license

When I signed up for Uber in March, they wanted me to submit a vehicle inspection along with all the other documentation. All right, I sent them a picture of my inspection sticker, which still had four months left on it.

Not good enough.

So I spent money I couldn't afford to take my car to the dealership to have it inspected, downloaded an inspection form, and had them fill it out. Uber accepted that form, and I started my rideshare gig.

Four months later, my car's actual inspection sticker was about to expire, and I was getting messages from Uber along those lines as well. I downloaded the same inspection form and dragged my car back to the dealership for its second inspection in four mo

Man, third-party booking is a treat, isn't it? "Call the passenger when you arrive, but we're not going to give you his number." That's a popular one. "It's a reservation for half an hour ago. Best get hopping." Sure, I'll get right on that. "His name is Roger. Or David. Or Quinn. Something like that. Maybe Fred." Uh-huh.

Yesterday was a real kick. Got a call to pick someone up at the clinic and take him to his home in Wellington. The reservation was for 2:05 for 20 minutes away, and I got it at 1:55. Sure, I'm driving the Batmobile. I drive to the clinic at a normal speed and get there at about 2:15.

No sign of him. "Call when you arrive." Sure. Wonder of wonders, the trip was actually b

...If that's what the kids are calling them around here.

I'm sure some of you buzzkills can vibe up a reason why I was a complete idiot to take $75 with $20 tip for 38 mostly-highway miles out of a Boost Plus zone, but a nice couple needed a ride home from the airport and I figured what the hell. Round trip took about an hour and a half.

Put me well over my goal for the day, so maybe I can put my feet up for a couple of hours this weekend.

Also, the Uber navigation was stupid, so I took a shortcut that shaved nine minutes off the arrival time. No idea what that was all about. Someone want to send the programmers a Rand-McNally?

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This has happened a couple of times so far, in different locations, but never so dramatically.

The small rectangular white building center right is a gymnasium. The gray angled building lower right is a neurocenter. Passenger wanted to go to the gymnasium. Uber delivered me to the neurocenter.

The neurocenter and its access road are closer to the gymnasium than the road the gymnasium is on. So rather than send me to the street address, Uber dropped the pin on the closest point on the nearest surface road.

It's done this sometimes in wealthy neighborhoods where the driveway

A couple of passengers hopped into my car earlier today for a routine drive home. They were just getting back from vacation, and had lost their keys; while they had a way to get into the house, their car was sitting locked in the parking lot of last night's hotel.

Does this seem like a lot of information? They were bickering about it as they got into the car. Hang on, because they've only just begun.

On the way home, the husband decides to get the key replaced. Like, right then. First he calls a tow truck driver to have the car brought to a dealership. Then he calls the dealership to order a new key.

By the end of the call I knew: his name, his wife's name, his complete home address, his

You should see the pathetic Boost+ offerings we get around here. Most of the time they're shrink-wrapped around the airport - literally only that zone is covered, and at the airport you're ONLY allowed to wait at the taxi stand.

Generously, however, they do include the runway. Yeah, I remember all the times I picked passengers up at the hangar.

When they do include another zone, it seems to be at random. Four streets on a peninsula and a square mile of ocean. A long uninhabited byroad and twenty acres of open field. A football stadium at three AM. It's like they're throwing darts at a map.

A couple of times I've deliberately tried to get Boost+ pricing. (I'm still at a point where I can

I've only been driving for two months. ("Newber.") So I stop by this subreddit to take a look at the culture of the app and see if there's any good advice - and I'm starting to think it might have cost me money.

There's been a plague of long drives with low pay posted to the sub lately, so when the offer popped up to drive someone to Logan for $84, I hesitated when I probably shouldn't have. According to Google Maps, it would have been a 99 mile drive, mostly highway. The offer expired without any input from me.

Thing is, I wouldn't be dwelling on it, but it took nearly six hours to earn $108 for that day, and probably burned a lot more gas. I would have unquestionably done better if I'd t

Can I ask why medical center calls are such a plague on the app? Yesterday I had a call directing me to 15 West Street in Town A when the passenger was at 15 West Street in Town B, 20 miles away. When her time expired without her arrival, I called her, and she sighed and said, "It happened again!"

Not my only problem with medical center calls, but they do seem to screw up not just more often, but more spectacularly. Both the driver and the passenger are getting screwed and the people who actually booked the ride have no incentive to care.

Yesterday was going so well, too. I took a group of tourists to a lighthouse; they were impressed by it. Ran into an old friend at a coffee shop; hugs ensued. Drove a couple of well-fed drunks back to their hotels. Then there was that one drive to the golf club. Cool guy. Nice bunch of passengers all around. Good moods, good vibes, good times, then I said, "Okay, I've almost reached my daily goal, one more passenger should do it."

The social disease in high heels who crawled into my car had apparently upended an entire bottle of dollar-store perfume over herself immediately before getting in, and possibly refreshed it a few times over the course of the ride. It may even have been more than

The PRAWN in Subnautica: Ugh, I hate this thing. It's a clunky, battery-guzzling power suit poorly designed for rough terrain. It once used three percent of its power to step over a limestone node. Its painfully inadequate booster rockets seem designed to send you tumbling into the bowels of the sea, usually at a point where you're critically low on power or desperate for a bottle of water.

For most of the game, your adversary is the environment, but when you're wearing the PRAWN, your adversary is the PRAWN. Crummy steering, poor downward visibility, and as agile as a graveyard statue. Every moment is a struggle.

The PRAWN in Subnautica: Below Zero: My God, I LOVE this thing. This is a ga

I was reminded of this by the holotape in the tato plant story posted earlier. For some reason, while Arlen Glass remains in the Slog working on an old Giddyup Buttercup, his attention span is somewhere near the overpass across the river, near the Enclave outpost.

It's the weirdest glitch. Somewhere over by the Enclave outpost on the busted remains of the highway is a "speak" prompt for Arlen Glass. I spotted it while I was taking down the Deathclaw in that area. Ever since then, I can't get the attention of Glass in the Slog, and I haven't been able to find the prompt near the highway. There's no visual cue for it. So I haven't been able to begin his mission.

Looking it up on the Wiki ind

It's a year since my homebuying odyssey, and one thing that annoyed me throughout the whole ordeal was the constant praising of crappy hardwood floors. Over on the First Time Homebuyer sub people hyperventilate for a glimpse of scuffed veneer. I've seen a thousand TikToks of flipper-bros peeling back aging carpet to reveal ratty-looking hardwood floors and speculating as to what absolute fool would dare conceal such a timeless perfect architectural blessing.

Me. Because hardwood floors suck.

Look, if you're into hardwoods, I don't want to pee on your parade. But my mama didn't raise me in no basketball court. They're cold - they suck all the heat right out through your feet. They're loud -

I mean, we're all biting our nails over Joe Biden's lackluster debate performance, but there are certain things happening between now and November that will surely have an impact on the outcome. Do you think maybe Democratic strategists currently fretting over whether to replace the frontrunner are looping that into account?